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A ground-breaking event encouraging the lighting industry to ‘go circular’.


few years ago the biggest contribution lighting had delivered to a sustainable solution was the switch to LEDs. We are now seeing a further major transition with the move to a circular economy. This was evident in the UK’s fi rst ever conference for sustainable lighting; Circular Lighting Live, held in September. The focus was to encourage and challenge all in the lighting sector to adopt a circular economy model. The event was sold out, having reached the 250 delegate limit over a week before it was due to run. It was inspiring that so many were committed to the event to spend time (and money) in attending.


The role of Governments, suppliers, and specifi ers


The keynote address was from John McRae, director at architectural practice ORMS. John was uncompromising in challenging the entire sector to reach zero carbon, and to fully embrace circularity. He told us to treat buildings as material banks: seeing them as repositories or stockpiles of valuable, high quality materials that can easily be taken apart and recovered, a practice that ORMS is embracing. The conference heard from Defra and Lutron of the legislative changes planned both in the UK and in Europe. The importance of other specifi cations, including Environmental Product Declarations, and embedded carbon assessments was also discussed. The conference heard that suppliers have an important role to play in the design of sustainable light fi ttings. Increasingly they are using recyclable and in some cases recycled materials, and using shorter supply chains to reduce transport carbon and introducing end of life take back. The pivotal role of the specifi er in encouraging


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